Fifth Management Plan: Phoenix Active Management Area, 2020-2025

The Management Plans serve as a tool to assist in achieving the groundwater goals of each of the state's five Active Management Areas (AMAs). Arizona's 1980 Groundwater Management Act (GMA or Code) created ADWR and put in place structures for water management, intended to curb the severe groundwater overdraft occurring in several parts of the state. The GMA defined five management periods and instructs that there shall be a management plan in each AMA for each management period. These plans contain the conservations programs that are intended to guide each AMA to meet it management goal - and these conservation programs are to be designed to achieve reductions in groundwater withdrawals. The successive periods and plans are a particular strength of the Code, enabling the plans to evolve over time, adapting to incorporate the information and experience gained over time to respond to changing technologies and circumstances.